‘Rape victim’ defends besieged Australian cleric

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Re: ‘Rape victim’ defends besieged Australian cleric

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‘Rape victim’ defends besieged Australian cleric

SYDNEY: The backing of a woman who described herself as a “rape victim” on Saturday took some of the heat off Australia’s embattled top Muslim cleric, under pressure for saying that scantily clad women “invited” sexual attack.

Cindy Taylor said Sheik Taj Aldin Al-Hilali had not intended to justify rape by comparing immodestly dressed women to “uncovered meat”, comments that sparked calls for his resignation.

“He’s a wonderful man and his analogy certainly did not justify the act of rape,” according to Taylor, who said she had twice been raped, although nobody had ever been charged.

“He was not being politically correct, but he’s not a politician, he’s a philosophical leader,” she said outside Sydney’s Lakemab Mosque, where police and journalists outnumbered a small gathering of around 100 Muslim worshippers. afp

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atleast she had a much clearer understanding than most of our GS feminists…

agreed